Eating and drinking with disbelievers and polytheists

Question

Question: What is the ruling on maintaining ties with polytheists (mushriks) and disbelievers (kafirs) and eating and drinking with them, when Allah Most High says in the glorious Criterion (al-Furqan): [ar]إِنَّمَا ٱلْمُشْرِكُونَ نَجَسٌ فَلَا يَقْرَبُوا۟ ٱلْمَسْجِدَ ٱلْحَرَامَ بَعْدَ عَامِهِمْ هَـٰذَا[/ar] “The polytheists are impure, so let them not come near the Sacred Mosque after this year of theirs” (Juz’ 10, Surah al-Tawba, 9:28).

Answer

Maintaining ties and relations with disbelievers without necessity is forbidden: [ar]يَـٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ لَا تَتَّخِذُوا۟ ٱلَّذِينَ ٱتَّخَذُوا۟ دِينَكُمْ هُزُوًا وَلَعِبًا مِّنَ ٱلَّذِينَ أُوتُوا۟ ٱلْكِتَـٰبَ مِن قَبْلِكُمْ وَٱلْكُفَّارَ أَوْلِيَآءَ[/ar] “O you who believe, do not take as allies those of the ones given the Scripture before you who have taken…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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